Czech and Slovak Transatlantic Award
The Czech and Slovak Transatlantic Award (CSTA) is an original initiative of the Jagello 2000 Association for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation from the Czech Republic and implemented jointly by Jagello 2000 and the Slovak Atlantic Commission since 2012.
Within this initiative, the two organizations annually recognize personalities, who have substantially contributed to freedom and democracy in Central Europe, to strengthening of the transatlantic relations and integration of Central Europe to Euro-Atlantic Institutions. The Awards are presented two times a year – in Spring in Slovakia at the Bratislava Global Security Forum GLOBSEC and in Autumn at the NATO Days in Ostrava & Czech Air Force Days in Ostrava, Czech Republic. The awardees are Czech, Slovak and international diplomatic and military personalities.
Honorary Committee
The CSTA awardees are chosen by the Honorary Committee, created for this purpose from distinguished personalities from the diplomatic, political and military areas of the Czech and Slovak Republics. Members of the Honorary Committee are:[1]
- Mikuláš Dzurinda, Former Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Slovakia
- Ján Figeľ, Deputy Speaker of the National Council of the Slovak Republic, Former Member of the European Commission
- Štefan Füle, former European Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy
- Rastislav Káčer, President of the Slovak Atlantic Commission and Ambassador of the Slovak Republic to Hungary
- Jan Kohout, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic
- Amb. Ivan Korčok, Permanent Representative of the Slovak Republic to the European Union
- Gen. Pavel Macko, 2nd Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Slovak Republic
- Zbyněk Pavlačík, CEO & Co-Founder of Jagello 2000
- Martin Povejšil, Head of the Permanent Representation of the Czech Republic to the EU
- Jiří Schneider, Former First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic
- Gen. (Ret). Jiří Šedivý, Former Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Czech Republic
- Maroš Šefčovič, Vice President of the European Commission.
List of Awardees
| Year | Place | Awardee |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Bratislava | Ron Asmus (in memoriam),[2] prominent US diplomat and political analyst |
| Alexandr Vondra,[2] former Minister of Defence of the Czech Republic | ||
| Ostrava | Jozef Stank (in memoriam), former Minister of Defence of Slovakia | |
| Gen. (Ret.) Klaus Naumann, former Chairman of the NATO Military Committee | ||
| 2013 | Bratislava | Jan Krzysztof Bielecki,[3] former Prime Minister and Minister for European Integration of Poland |
| Oldřich Černý (in memoriam),[3] former Director General of the Czech Foreign Intelligence Service | ||
| Ostrava | Gen. (Ret.) David Petraeus,[4] former Commander of the ISAF and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency | |
| Eduard Kukan,[4] former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Slovakia | ||
| 2014 | Bratislava | Karel Kovanda,[5] Former Permanent Representative of the Czech Republic to the North Atlantic Council and Western European Union |
| Anders Fogh Rasmussen,[5] NATO Secretary General and Former Prime Minister of Denmark | ||
| Ostrava | Martin Bútora,[6] Honorary President of Institute for Public Affairs, former Slovak Ambassador to the USA | |
| Bronisław Komorowski,[6] President of the Polish Republic | ||
| 2015 | Bratislava | Carl Bildt, Former Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden |
| Prof. Otto Pick, Founder and Former Director of the Institute of International Relations Prague | ||
| Ostrava | Tomasz Siemoniak, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defence of the Republic of Poland | |
| František Šebej, Slovak Politician and Academic | ||
| 2016 | Bratislava | Madeleine Albright, Former U.S. Secretary of State |
| Michael Žantovský, Czech diplomat, politician and author | ||
| Ostrava | Daniel Fried, U.S. diplomat |
Artist's design
Original creation of the renowned Slovak glass-designer Patrik Illo, the Czech and Slovak Transatlantic Award symbolizes the transatlantic link by opposite side edges through transparent glass.
References
- ↑ "GLOBSEC Gala Dinner official page". 8 April 2013. Retrieved 20 May 2013.
- 1 2 "Vondra a americký diplomat Asmus dostali cenu za přínos bezpečnosti a stabilitě". Mladá fronta DNES (in Czech). iDnes. 13 April 2012. Retrieved 15 October 2012.
- 1 2 "Havlův poradce Černý a expremiér Bielecki dostali transatlantickou cenu". Mladá fronta DNES (in Czech). iDnes. 19 April 2013. Retrieved 20 May 2013.
- 1 2 "Král David v Ostravě. Exšéf CIA, jenž skončil kvůli milence, dostal cenu". Mladá fronta DNES (in Czech). iDnes. 20 September 2013. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
- 1 2 "Rasmussen and Kovanda to Receive Czech and Slovak Transatlantic Awards".
- 1 2 "Poradca prezidenta Kisku získal Českú a slovenskú transatlantickú cenu". 22 September 2014.